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Re: Coming Soon ... Brickbay.com (Replacement for Bricks)
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Wed, 17 May 2000 19:32:47 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Stanley writes:
<auto inventory creation>
Ya. and...
When I tell it I have a set, present me with the contents so I can say "keeping
these, keeping these, keeping 1/2 of these" instead of assuming I am parting
the whole thing out...
> Ah, that would be easy (depending on how you look at it) for the buyers but it
> could also be a nightmare. Assuming you could submit a single payment (maybe
> to someone who could then disperse it to the individual sellers, and only via
> something like Paypal or X.com (I can say that as a seller I am this close ->
> <- to only accepting electronic payment - too many trips to the bank to
> deposit $5 here, $11 there), there would have to be some sort of added fee for
> that (nobody's time is free). But think of the potential shipping costs. You
> buy from 4 sellers, maybe only $2.00 worth from each, so an $8 order. You
> could, conceivably, end up paying as much or more total to have those 4 people
> ship items to you...
Good point. Just make sure that the site presents the information to the buyer
early on in the order construction process (here is where frames are good, show
me the order as it is being built in one frame while I build it in another) so
the buyer realises that 4 shipping charges are being paid (one flat 3.20, one
based on weight for first class, one based on dollar value starting from the
prio base rate, and the final one based on weight AND dollar because that's
what the sellers each individually chose for their shipping algorithms when
they were uploading) and let the buyer maybe pay 15 cents apiece for the blue
frombles instead of 14 so that he gets to pay only *3* shipping charges. All of
a sudden that extra 1 cent per part gets to be a bargain instead of an extra
cost.
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